FIRE DEPARTMENT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The department of local government responsible for preventing and extinguishing fires

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("fire department" is a kind of...):

department of local government; local department (a permanent department created to perform the work of a local government)

Meronyms (members of "fire department"):

fire-eater; fire fighter; firefighter; fireman (a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fire department"):

fire brigade (British name for a fire department)